Vegetables!

A vegetable is a plant grown for its edible part (you usually can’t eat all of it, only the roots, stems, leaves, etc.)

Vegetables also have much less simple sugars (fructose) in them than vegetables- that is why they are less sweet!

Vegetables do not develop from flowers, while fruits do.

What is a vegetable?

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Broccoli Asparagus Lettuce

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Beets Okra Peppers

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Tomatillo Bitter Melon Sea Beans

BroccoliBrussels SproutsCeleryKalePeasGreen OnionsAnd a ton more!

Vegetables Grown in Florida

Taro root can’t be eaten raw because it is toxic, but it makes delicious desserts when cooked!

Taro is found in southeast Asia, and is fried, steamed, and made into bubble tea and other dishes.

Taro cake is traditionally eaten when celebrating Chinese New Year.

McDonalds has a taro- flavored pie in China.

Taro

Really a fruit, the winter melon is eaten as a vegetable.

It is fuzzy when it is young! When it is mature, it can be stored for up

to 12 months!Because of this, it is eaten in Southeast

Asia during the winter and that is how it got its name.

It is also eaten during New Years!

Fuzzy Melon (or Winter Melon)

Beets have nutrients that guard your body against cancer and heart disease!

In Eastern Europe, Beets are made into a vegetable soup known as Borsht (When the astronauts of Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 met in space, they served borsht).

Beets are high in natural sugars.

Beets

Also called Goya or Karavella, this fruit originated in India.

It is very bitter, and sometimes served with yogurt or potatoes to offset the flavor.

It is used as medicine as well, usually involving stomach problems, but also in preventing and treating malaria.

Bitter Melon

Grown in warm climates, Okra is eaten when the pods are still immature.

Okra exudes a slimy substance when cut called mucilage.

A serving of okra only contains 25 calories

Okra was cultivated by the ancient Egyptians.

Okra

Garbanzo beans come from the Middle East, and the leaves from their plant can be used to make tea

They were eaten by ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians as long as 7,500 years ago

Some types of chickpeas can be popped and eaten like popcorn!

Garbanzo beans (chickpeas)

Technically a fruit, most people consider them a vegetable for nutrition reasons

These cucumbers are bred to be seedless, and the skin is usually thinner than a normal cucumber

Cucumbers are 95% water and they also prevent bad breath by killing bacteria in your mouth.

Seedless Cucumber

These are also technically fruits, but used as vegetables in cooking

The Aztecs originally grew Tomatillos, and they belong to the tomato family

Tomatillo